Archive for March 13th, 2018

Cox’s Bazar, 13 March 2018 (IOM)* – When a poor, rural farming community finds itself in the middle of the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world – doubling its population in just a few months – it’s not just the new arrivals who need support as food prices soar and infrastructure is overloaded.

Myanmar’s Rakhine State is being militarized at an alarming pace, as authorities are building security force bases and bulldozing land where Rohingya villages were burned to the ground just months ago, Amnesty International on 12 March 2018 said in a new briefing.

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By Amos Gvirtz*

12 March 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service— When robbers are caught, the accepted practice is to arrest them and bring them to trial, to send them to jail in accordance with the severity of their crime, and to require them to pay compensation to their victims. But this is not the case in Israel when the robbers are the settlers who steal Palestinian land and build their homes or grow their crops on it.

Amos Gvirtz

They receive special treatment, and if the state is forced to act according to the law, then it is the settlers who receive compensation!

Unfortunately, this scandalous situation is a substantial element in the corruption of Israeli society caused by the occupation.

The land grabbing started when the State of Israel chose to begin its process of territorial expansion after the Six Day War in 1967.

Despite a United Nations Security Council demand to institute a 30-day ceasefire across Syria, airstrikes, shelling and ground offensives have intensified in Eastern Ghouta, Secretary-General António Guterres on 12 March 2018 reported, warning that the conflict is entering its eighth year with the “grimmest” reality on the ground.

UNOCHA | Douma, East Ghouta, Syria.

A country known for its ancient civilization and with a people known for their richness of diversity, “Syria is bleeding inside and out,” the UN chief told the 15-member body in his briefing on the implementation of Security Council resolution 2401 unanimously adopted on 24 February.